Former Liverpool defender Rigobert Song is set to be named Cameroon head coach on the orders of the country's president.
The 45-year-old will replace Toni Conceicao, who led the national team to a third-placed finish at January's Africa Cup of Nations.
Song is the country's most capped player, making 137 appearances for the Indomitable Lions.
A statement said Cameroon needed "a new breath".
"On very high instructions from the President of the Republic, the coach of the men's national football team, Mr Antonio Conceicao, has been replaced by Rigobert Song," Cameroon's sports minister Narcisse Mouelle Kombi said.